Denver and Rio Grande Western diesel locomotive 50 and steam locomotive 478, with a coal tender and boxcar (3468), sit by a steel shed in Durango (La Plata County) Colorado. A sign on the shed reads: "Rio Grande Motorway, Inc." Engineers look out of the locomotive cabs; a man in a cowboy hat climbs on the diesel locomotive.

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